Saturday, December 9, 2017

Meet the Press guests said the American people litigated Trump's self disclosed predatory behavior toward women by making him President of the United States. Voting between a limited number of candidates for an elected position is not a court of law.

Why? Because in our strange new world language is distorted as a means to an end. Host Chuck Todd could have challenged the use of the word litigate. Instead he shared the Blue Team version of the same distortion relative to Bill Clinton's sexual predatory behavior.

Both the Red and Blue political team are willing to twist language in order to not hold their leaders accountable. That is not the least bit comforting.

Friday, July 21, 2017

America's Democratic Party joined with war mongering Republican neocons to form the Alliance for Securing Democracy, according to The Intercept. The Blue Team's Laura Rosenberger and Red Jamie Fly are chief staffers for the group. The following are board members, some with private equity affiliations:

"Democrats often justify this union as a mere marriage of
convenience: a pragmatic, temporary alliance necessitated by the narrow
goal of stopping Trump." Pragmatic, temporary alliances are essentially "the enemy of my enemy is my friend."

That practice in Afghanistan got the U.S. Obama bin Laden, al Qaeda and 9-11. The United States partnered with dangerous allies in Libya and Syria. It remains to be seen how that blows back on innocent civilians at home and abroad.

America's two political parties make war mostly for public consumption. The Alliance for Securing Democracy is about political insiders pursuit of power and money. Corporate donors with deep pockets get out-sized influence. The combination is both intoxicating and dangerous.

Sunday, May 21, 2017

News reports indicated Frances Townsend to be a potential FBI Director in the wake of James Comey's firing. Townsend is a private equity underwriter, as are most of President Donald Trump's appointments. Prior to PEU employment Frances served as White House Homeland Security Advisor under President George W. Bush. In that role she conducted the investigation into the federal response to Hurricane Katrina.

Her investigation was abysmal. It omitted the hospital with thirty five patient deaths after Katrina made landfall. Twenty five of those deaths were on the LifeCare Hospital's unit on the seveth floor of Memorial Medical Center. The Carlyle Group purchased LifeCare just weeks before Katrina made landfall.

Fran Townsend was part of the White House team that failed Americans in need. She crafted the White House Lessons Learned report on Hurricane Katrina. Her poor quality report should disqualify her from serving as FBI Director. We don't need corporate risk management at the expense of truth and public service. Brand Trump needs help but that should not happen to the detriment of our country.

Thursday, April 13, 2017

The world witnessed United Airlines prioritize its operating needs over the customers it supposedly serves. It went so far as to beat and bloody a physician trying to get home to see patients to accommodate a United flight crew. In the process passengers objected to this man's horrific treatment. One suggested the flight crew rent a car to get to their work destination.

David Dao will have his day in court. The irony is United could have
offered the four passengers $1 million each and come out better.
Instead it used a computer to randomly select seated passengers for
ejection. That impersonal procedure became very personal for Dr. Dao.
It also incited the wrath of nearly anyone viewing the video online.

Corporate power, hubris and greed contribute to the dehumanization of anyone who doesn't willingly follow company edicts, no matter how nonsensical. A sixty nine year old physician got the tar beat out him for asking United to honor the seat the company gave him. It took United's CEO three tries to get close to what happened, a horrific crime his company perpetrated against a passenger and a psychologically traumatic event for anyone on that plane.

Power, hubris and greed are alive and well in America's corporate enforcement state. United's dehumanization is one window into this abusive malformation. Lesser abuses happen to customers and employees inside companies every day. They have the same root.

Dr. Dao wants to ensure something like this happens to no one else. I trust him to have more impact than any CEO looking to optimize their executive incentive compensation. United hired CEO Oscar Munoz in September 2015. He took a medical leave of absence from October 19, 2015 until March 14, 2016. For his six weeks of work in 2015 Munoz earned $5.8 million. The United CEO's 2016 pay should be made public the end of April in a SEC filing.

Change is in the air for United. Dr. Dao won't fly anytime soon. Injustice lasts until justice is served. It can come from the top but that requires reflection, insight and balance, rare characteristics in our hallowed halls of power.

As head of Barack Obama’s National Economic Council during 2009 and 2010 at the height of the foreclosure crisis, Larry Summers broke many promises to help homeowners while simultaneously dismissing Wall Street’s criminality. Now, after the Obama administration has left power and Summers has no ability to influence anything, he finds himself “disturbed” that settlements for mortgage misconduct are full of lies.

When it was discovered that mortgage companies were using false
documents to execute foreclosures, in violation of numerous legal
statutes, Summers dismissed it.

The Obama team began with a free pass for Wall Street. I wonder what insider Larry Summers hopes to gain with his memory challenged statement? Who are the insiders he's catering to by speaking out now?

The Blue team is shameless in their self-serving manipulations. Pelosi and Summers expect us not to remember. Well, we do.

Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Some words are said to manipulate voters. Apparently "Drain the Swamp" is so yesterday. Trump's cabinet of publicly subsidized billionaires will be interesting to watch. It's the Red Team's turn to steer Uncle Sam's nearly $2 trillion budget to reward friends and supporters.

Saturday, December 3, 2016

The American public had a choice of two candidates with outsized personalities and egos. Red team candidate Donald Trump mobilized enough politically and economically disaffected voters to win the Electoral College, which actually votes on December 19th. The Blue Team's Hillary Clinton received more overall votes but not in the right locations to win the election. Her focus on "Donald the Monster" wasn't inspiring and she represented the massively enriched political insider class carrying ethical question marks.

It's hard to get a balanced person on the ticket due to the rigorous dehumanization required of candidates on the campaign fundraising trail. Nevertheless, 2016 provided two candidates with signs of narcissism.

No empathyNo remorse EntitledDeceptiveDr. Jekyll/Mr. HydeEmotionally dependentUses battering for control

Trump has it in spades. Hillary's disappearance after the election and her team's inability to self-examine indicate a circle the wagon approach to protect their candidate. Bad outcomes are never the narcissist's fault.

They will tell you whatever they believe you need to know in order to get what they are attempting to extract from you.

The Red and Blue teams ran for the right to ignore their campaign promises, reward their donors/sponsors and steer the federal budget to the benefit of their friends/insiders. Trump extracted his votes and will now appoint Red Team alligators and water moccasins to his new and improved swamp.

As a victim tries to pick up the pieces, What must be remembered is that
you were deliberately targeted, lied to and manipulated by a skilled
con-artist, for their own gain.

Anyone whose worked for a narcissist knows the hell they can unleash on those they view as enemies. I expect Donald to be himself as President. I'm not sure the system can control him. The only thing working in the common man's favor is Donald wants to leave a legacy, even if his road is paved with unexamined, self absorbed intentions.

Update 1-22-17: A bizarre White House press briefing, the first for President Donald Trump, began the battering for control, which continued the next day. Image is everything, a point made by White House advisor Anthony Scarramuci at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Update 1-26-17: HuffPo ran a piece on this topic on 12-20-16, several weeks after ArisFreedomSwitch. Image management is everything for Trump.